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Subject: Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT?
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On 2014-11-12, john@peppermind.com <john@peppermind.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes Stallman's position is that he wished he could put a GPL Virus in the compiler
>
> Have you talked to him personally about that? To me this seems like
> a pretty unfair statement, given that most if not all other FSF-backed
> programming languages do not encumber executables with the GPL.
>

Actually, it's an accurate statement IIRC.

David's already posted a statement which I was unaware of and which backs
up my memory that in the very early days of gcc, RMS proposed that _any_
output from the gcc compiler would also be covered by the GPL.

IIRC, the backlash from that was so huge (by the standards of the time)
that RMS made it formally clear this wasn't, and would not be, the case.

Simon.

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